Sentence examples for merely totems from inspiring English sources

Toys are merely totems.

And for those with that point of view, autographed items other than formal documents — say, the back of an envelope — are merely fetishistic totems, and perhaps a little silly.

The baccalaureate isn't only a totem.

But these books became totems.

The sooner the euro becomes merely a successful monetary arrangement, and not a political totem, the better.

Clementi was a totem, but not part of the story.

Merely mentioning the vaunted "algorithm" raises its station, fetishizes it, treats it as a totem.

Utilitarian explanations for the choices of totems—"good to eat," "useful," etc. do not fit the ethnographic data, and to say that the totems are chosen because they have some special mystical significance is merely to rephrase the problem, without identifying why only certain items have mystical significance.

BEACON "Mollie McKinley: Thresholds and Totems".

Merely observe.

A few lugged home more personal totems.